Hi Luk

Welcome to the forum.

1. To change those icons, you'll need to edit "SndVolISSO.dll" file (for Volume icon), "batmeter.dll" file (for battery icon) and "netshell.dll" file (for network icon). All files can be found in "System32" folder.

2. Yep. You can get rid of those icons by setting the common task pane "Auto-hidden". Pls use following tutorial:

How to Make Folder Band Auto-Hidden in Windows Vista?

Hi and thank you for your responses and for the welcome :).

As for the network: I did look in netshell.dll, but that's where the problem is: there are way too many icons for me to figure out which exactly need to be replaced (surely, not all of them;). Could somebody tell me the number of the icon that has to be swapped? I look at them in reshacker and compared to the icon that sits in the taskbar now, but I am not sure which is the wicked which, so to speak. Pretty please :)

Also thank you for letting me know where to look to change battery meter and sound icon.

BTW, are you guys familiar with flyakite transformation pack? My aim is to get some of the icons from that package and insert them into relevant places using reshacker. Has anybody already tried that?

As for making the folder band invisible: your guide does not seem to work if one uses windowblinds6. It does work with aero though!